The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.

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Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

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Liberty: "a power of acting or not acting, according to the determinations of the will...".

aphorism by David Hume from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748)
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Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.

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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

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Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.

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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

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It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.

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He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.

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